fosbury flop

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   jumping over the bar backwards and head first

   Broaderhigh jump

Questions about fosbury flop

What does fosbury flop mean?

fosbury flop means "jumping over the bar backwards and head first".

Is fosbury flop a common word?

fosbury flop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.